Minister for Foreign Affairs Accepted "Every Word" That Officers Suspected of Collusion in Murder of Pat Finucane Would Be Arrrested

Irish Times/Eamon Phoenix | 02 January 2018

In 1991, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Gerry Collins, accepted without question the RUC Chief Constable, Sir Jack Hermon's assurances that any officer suspected of collusion in the murder of Pat Finucane would be arrested.

The PFC will oppose proposals in a report from the Westminster Defence Select Committee which recommends the protection from prosecution of British soldiers and RUC personnel, regardless of the evidence against them. This "Statue of Limitations", while coupled with a "truth recovery mechanism", woul...

Loughrey family lodge complaint with OPONI

Sara Duddy, Derry News, | 27 November 2017

How can someone be a suspect in four murders but never be arrested or questioned by the police? How can you be named on the Police National Computer as being wanted for questioning for these murders, yet travel freely around the UK, even reportedly running a bed and breakfast in Scotland? These are...

Order of Mandamus in Glenanne Cases

Glenanne Overarching Report | 07 December 2017

Copy of the Order of Mandamus issued by Judge Treacy on 7 November 2017 compelling the Chief Constable to put in place a mechanism to complete the Overarching Report into collusion in over 120+ killings attributable to the Glenanne gang.

British army 'covered up' UDR units links to UVF

thedetail.tv | 31 July 2011

The investigative website, The Detail, in co-operation with the Irish News, published a numbers of articles based on documents uncovered by the PFC at the National Archive in Kew. The declassified documents concern security investigations into loyalist infiltration of 10 UDR, the Belfast city Battal...

The story of Thomas Curry

Steven McCaffery, Irish News | 03 May 2006

THOMAS Curry, a civilian sea captain from Lancashire, was gunned down by hooded men after going ashore in Belfast to post a letter. Capt Curry was well known at Belfast's commercial docks and he stopped for a drink in a nearby bar before returning to his vessel, the Orwell Fisher. The UDA/UFF launch...

LOYALIST COLLUSION "TERRIBLE COVER-UP"

Steven McCaffery, Irish News | 12 May 2006

Documents confirming that the British government was aware of large-scale collusion between security forces and loyalists point to a “terrible cover-up”, an expert observer of the Troubles has said. During the worst years of violence Fr Raymond Murray worked with Mgr Denis Faul and Fr Brian Brady to...

'One man's collusion, another man's anti-terrorism activity'

Steven McCaffery, Irish News, | 12 May 2006

Documents showing the British government was aware of large scale collusion between security forces and loyalists from as early as 1973 were written by officials who “did not know what they were talking about”, a leading Ulster Unionist has claimed.

'Tradition of British cover-ups protects squeaky clean image'

Steven McCaffery, Irish News | 12 May 2006

A clergyman who pioneered research into security force activities during the troubles has said the collusion documents revealed in The Irish News point to a “terrible cover-up”. Fr Raymond Murray worked with Monsignor Denis Faul and Fr Brian Brady to catalogue allegations of wrongdoing in the police...

Evidence 'final proof' for nationalists

Steven McCaffery, Irish News | 12 May 2006

THE emergence of the first documented evidence of large scale collusion and government knowledge of it, represented “final proof” for nationalists of a long-standing grievance, according to one media observer. As the story unfolded it sparked a lengthy debate on the north’s leading internet platform...

British army and NIO answer collusion questions

Weapons and Shooting Statistics (added May 2018)

Official memo on weapons seized on both sides of the border between 1969-1976 with a breakdown of types of weapons and a summary of key seizures. The information was supplied by the RUC Data Reference Centre which carried out intelligence analysis under the aegis of Special Branch. This February 1977 memo highlights the involvement of republican and loyalist organisations in...